Software updates that have been in testing since July 9th are now ready to be activated via hard fork this Friday at block 139,200 ~14:00 EDT (18:00 UTC). To recap, here’s what’s changing:

Bug fixes on P2SH multisig addresses to make them compatible with replay protection.

Upping the community funding to 12% of block rewards, adding the 3.5% secure node rewards to the current 8.5% pool. These funds will be held in escrow until the secure node network goes live.

Swapping out old community fund addresses for new ones.

New DNS seeders for improved network discovery.

Changing the requirement for community fund UTXO to first be sent to z_addresses. These funds will still all be sent through z_addresses before being spent to preserve fungibility, but requiring it in the first step limits multisig security.

The ZenCash development team is working hard to continuously improve our system. Many thanks to @lpsun, @anarch3, @lukas, @cronic, and @smrtz getting this ready and for all the hard work in #developers testing!